Having been away I don't know if anyone has mentioned the Taliban in the Big Easy tearing up statues to people unable to defend themselves. This country has a past whether or not you like it. Up here in Kansas are some statues to honor a mass murderer named John Brown. He cloaked his violence in the folds of abolitionism but he was still a murderer.
They've convinced the mindless masses to dishonor Robert E. Lee who fought an honorable war for a lost cause. Lee never attacked civilian population centers like Sherman did but his side lost so his statue gets taken down (I hear it's going to be replaced by Harvey Milk taking one up the ass. WTF is the model.) So what's next? The Washington Monument coming down because George owned slaves? They could always call that huge erection the Clinton monument I suppose. We'll have to bulldoze any memory of anyone who has a stain on their character...unless they're liberals.